Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever ! |
| 2 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 3 | I think a lot of it was to do with the fact that I 'd never driven in the dark before . |
| 4 | I 'd better go in a minute . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better get in touch with him . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd better get in here first before Mr , and er Michael start hurling pieces of coal at each other . |
| 7 | If we 're going to have a fight , I 'd better get in first . |
| 8 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
| 9 | He rebuked me because I 'd apparently stepped in too quickly with the next question before he 'd finished answering the last one . |
| 10 | It was the biggest crowd I 'd ever played in front of . |
| 11 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 12 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 13 | She was the loveliest girl that I 'd ever seen in my life , and her voice was like music . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 15 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to lie on my bed all day thinking about every bloody meal I 'd ever had in my life . |
| 17 | It was the most embarrassing thing I 'd ever experienced in my life — and in front of Peter . |
| 18 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 19 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | ‘ I had already tried in my youth to enlist in the Forces as an officer cadet , which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage . |
| 21 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 22 | While enjoying the pleasure of writing , directing and producing good plays and musical shows , I had honestly kept in mind my Tuxis training to think of T.O.F. ( the other fellow ) . |
| 23 | I had just sent in last month 's article on the rib transfer carriage and shadow lace , when I received a letter from Mr David Dick of Irvine , Ayrshire , asking about knitting an embossed lace pattern using the ribber . |
| 24 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 25 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 26 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 27 | I had just succeeded in sitting upright when the fishmonger appeared . |
| 28 | I had never believed in Swinging London in any way , and always felt it was a figment of Time magazine 's imagination . ’ |
| 29 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 30 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |